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    Help!! I'm Hangry!!

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      mmonaghan99 wrote: »
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      I like whole grain pasta! It's a bit less tender than regular pasta, so I tend to overcook it a little (same with brown rice). It tastes fine though, not exactly the same as typical pasta but it is really good and it has lots more fiber. Try it sometime! We almost always do whole grain, although the bf can't completely give up his white rice so we alternate. Think of the switch as being kind of like going from eating white bread to wheat. It's a similar experience.

      Thanks for all the pointers your a foodie genius!!
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      paulahope2 wrote: »
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      Do you get all your protein sources through food or those horrid shakes?? I really can't get past the taste of the shakes :/ what proteins do you normally consume a day of you don't mind me asking?

      I'm terrible at eating enough protein through diet, although that is partly due to being cheap/lazy. I had to get rid of some of the carbs in my diet to make room for the protein (I'm not willing to go lower than 30 g/day fat). I've done things like adding red lentils to my pasta sauce for a protein (and fiber) boost. I pretty much always have meat for dinner, and if I were willing to eat meat for lunch I'd probably be OK - for example, if I buy a roasted chicken for dinner, I could have some of the leftover meat on my salad the next day. Beans have protein, but I find I have to reduce my carbs when I add them, as they also have a lot of calories from carbohydrate. Ham has a lot of it's calories from protein (as opposed to pepperoni), but I try to limit my processed meats. If I liked fish, that would be a great place to get protein. The omega 3s in fish are a good thing to have in the diet as well. You can find protein snack packs in the grocery stores if you can afford them. Some people like quest bars as well.

      So I'm also taking a whey protein drink to get enough protein. I'm using Kaizen, but I couldn't find any user reviews for it, so I don't know what the general response to it is. It uses stevia as sweetener instead of sucralose. I really like sweet things, and the Kaizen isolate is really sweet. I chose it because I could smell the chocolate through the container. Kaizen is a little more expensive, though. I had GNC chocolate before, and I thought it was OK, although user reviews generally find it to be too expensive for what you get (cheaper than Kaizen, though).

      If you want a better tasting powder, google it. Taste varies, though.. You can get unflavored, add it to pancakes or greek yogurt, and dress it up with berries. There's online recipes for protein powder marshmallow fluff, protein powder brownies, cookies, etc, if you don't like to mix it with water. I use my protein powder with greek yogurt, and I think it tastes like cheesecake. It would probably be too sweet for other people, though....

      Protein, fiber, and intense exercise has helped me get through the last 9 months of dieting without too many hangries. If I'm low on any of those, however, the sugar crazies start raging... Best of luck.
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